DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484321980.001

ISBN: 9781484321980

Growth takeoffs in developing economies have rebounded in the past two decades. Although recent takeoffs have lasted longer than takeoffs before the 1990s, a key question is whether they could unravel like some did...

Publication Date:
24
January
2013

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475566949.005

ISBN: 9781475566949

Many developing and emerging countries do not fully pass-through increases in international fuel prices to domestic retail prices, with adverse consequences for fuel tax revenues and tax volatility. The adoption of...

ISBN: 9781463923334

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed...